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= December 11 =

French naval songs (inter-war)
In between the two World Wars, did the French have any songs specifically about torpedo boats? I know the Russians had their "Torpedo Boat Song" (which was a flop, and understandably so) -- did the French have anything comparable? Thanks in advance! 2601:9:3200:467:1830:AF9B:D09C:6497 (talk) 23:46, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * It seems a bit unlikely. A Google search only produced this song by Théodore Botrel who died in 1925, but I suspect it's much older...
 * "Quand passe au large un cuirassé de guerre
 * Ou ben encore un torpilleur sournois,
 * Je groûme un peu : ces « bouilleurs d'eau » Tonnerre !
 * Ne valent pas la vieille Flotte en bois !"
 * It might translate as: "When a battleship goes off, or then again a sneaky torpedo boat, I groom(?) a bit: these 'water boilers' thunder! It didn't happen in the old wooden fleet!" Alansplodge (talk) 20:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks anyway! 67.169.80.238 (talk) 05:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)